This is amazing! Describes my wife uncomfortably accurately lol. She knows she’s got “control issues” (and vacations are fertile ground) and when they’re not triggered we laugh about it. But the itinerary thing...yeah. I always wondered why such hyper planning of things was necessary (3:30-4:30pm: shopping. 4:30-5:30pm: spontaneous trip to the beach!) and I feel like you nailed it. I think I’ve gotten her to loosen her grip over the years. She recently went on a girl’s trip with a couple friends and the alpha of that group had every last minute of a five day trip mapped out to a T. That kind of hyper planning of everything for everyone freaks me out, like why would you ever feel the need to do that? Why not just let go and enjoy yourself and see what happens? This seems like it hits the nail on the head!

On the flip, I’m TOO “whatever” about things. I hate planning. Drives her nuts lol. God I love that woman.